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US Aviation Academy reviews

3.4

53% would recommend to a friend

(66 total reviews)

Mike Sykes

56% approve of CEO

44% positive business outlook

US Aviation Academy has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 66 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The US Aviation Academy employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Education industry (3.6 stars).

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66 reviews
1.0
Feb 27, 2023

Awful

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Instructing is a good way to build flight time. Chief pilot is a great guy and really cares about the instructors. They have different airlines come in just about every week and have a huge alumni network.

Cons

Cant write enough bad about this place. Even though the chief pilot cares about the instructors and students, the guys in charge of the money do not. They work you to death and pay you very little. Planes are always down for maintenance. The scheduling team is rude. Students fly maybe once a week because of plane availability. There are way too many students because the sales team is very good at lying and management is so greedy and doesn’t turn anyone down. This leads to students enrolling who don’t care about aviation at all and show up to lessons unprepared or dont show up at all. As an instructor I worked 72 hour weeks every single week and because were paid Hobbs time I got paid for MAYBE 7 of those hours and no benefits because were “part time” as instructors. In a good month i flew 80 hours a month. This place went to crap after summer 2022 and I’m so glad I left when I did.

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US Aviation Academy Response
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We are glad you built a relationship with the Chief pilot and were able to work with our partner airlines and alumni to move to that next step in your career. US Aviation continues to monitor pay and adjust to be in the top half of the industry.
3.0
Dec 27, 2018

USAA (Chinese program)

Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Flow of students Hours *can* be good.

Cons

Wait time. Waiting for stage checks, waiting for new students to get their paperwork pushed through, etc. Aircraft are frequently down. If you're on day shift most likely one or more of your flights will be canceled due to aircraft availability. Not rare for a 12 hour day to turn into a 3 hour day. Too structured. Everybody learns at different rates. Remember when you went through the FOI's? If a student isn't picking something up quick enough they get sent on review board for termination instead of taking the time to thoroughly teach them. Says more about the company than the student. Major culture problem of yelling at students and in some cases making them do push-ups.

5.0
Feb 8, 2018

CFI Denton Texas

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Great schedule, great training and professional development.

Cons

I don’t have any cons to mention

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